Medicine: The Case Against Herpes

One of man's more troublesome enemies is the family of herpes viruses.
The 50 odd variants of the virus are responsible for a number of
painful and occasionally dangerous conditions, including shingles, a
form of encephalitis and an eruption of blisters in infants with
eczema. Recently, however, medical researchers have been focusing their
attention on herpes simplex, a type of the virus long known to be
responsible for a relatively minor affliction, the cold sore. Their
findings have provided both good and bad news. The good news: several
promising methods have been developed...